"An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage. On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Jeff Rice addresses the critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular events, but generated out of aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Outrage theory
Affective outrage
Technological outrage
Digital outragicity
Photographic outrage
Algorithmic outrage
Enthymemic outrage
Epideictic outrage
The discourse: an outrage conclusion.
ISBN
9781643363967 (hardcover)
1643363964 (hardcover)
9781643363974 (paperback)
1643363972 (paperback)
LCCN
2023001503
OCLC
1354503766
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